8/15 PBE Update: TFT Updates, Chroma Assets, and more!

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 9.17 PBE cycle, today's patch includes TFT updates, Elderwood Ahri chroma assets, and more!
Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

Table of Contents


TFT Changes


Pantheon is now testing in TFT on the PBE!
  • Tier 5
  • Dragon
  • Guardian
  • Grand Starfall: "Pantheon leaps into the air and then crashes down on the furthest enemy, stunning it and dealing % max health damage to everything on the way."

Check out this preview video from the League twitter:


New Color Control and Screen Shake Options 

Here's Riot Reinboom with details on new options testing on the PBE:
"Hello! 
A few new options will be showing up in your options menu on PBE soon, shipping with 9.17 if all goes well. These options can all be found under ‘Video’. 
The options:

  • Enable Screen Shake (defaults to on)
    • Turning this off will remove the screen shake caused by, for example, Pulsefire Ezreal's recall or Ornn's ultimate. 
  • Color Level, Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast (all of these are sliders)
    • These options control the overall appearance of the game except for the UI, allowing you to either diminish or highlight visual differences in game quickly.
    • These options are pretty standard fare in many games and should all work similarly to what you're used to.
Why 
Options like this often get overlooked in many games, but for many players who need them they can be vital to making their gaming experience comfortable or even possible. We're interested in adding more options like this in the future if these first few improve folks' game experiences in the way we're expecting. 
Please try these new settings out in your PBE games, let us know what you think, and what other options we should explore!"

Miscellaneous 

  • Elderwood Ahri chroma assets added:
       
  • Chuseok summoner icons names changed: Full Harvest Nasus Icon and Songpyeon Poro Icon
 

Balance Changes

NOTE*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, & experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be relative to other changes earlier this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions
Garen
[Changelist 1 / Changelist 2]
  • Attack speed per level increased from 2.9% to 3%
  • Perseverance (Passive)
    • [Removed] No longer doubles below (25/50%) health
    • Cooldown changed from 9/4 to 6 at all ranks
    • Changed from  [non-epic monsters don't break passive at level 11] to [non-epic monsters never break it]
    • Heal amount changed from [2%/8%] to [2.5/2.75/3/3.25/3.5/3.75/4.5/5.25/6/6.75/7.5/8.25/9/9.25/9.5/9.75/10/10.25%] 
  • Courage (W) 
    • Cooldown changed from [23/21/19/17/15] to [24/23/22/21/20]
    • Resists per stack lowered from .33 to .25
    • Resists cap lowered from 50 to 30
    • Minion kills to max stacks increased from 150 to 160
  • Judgment (E)
    • Tick changed from [5+1 per 3 levels (max 10)] to [8+1 per 25% attack speed]
      • Garen gains 49.3% attack speed by level 18
    • Base damage changed from 14/18/22/26/30 to 9/15/21/27/33
    • AD ratio changed from .36/.37/.38/.39/.4 to .26/.295/.33/.365/.40
    • Hits needed to shred armor increased from 4 to 6
    • [Removed] No longer deals 33% bonus damage if hitting only one enemy
    • [New] now deals 25% bonus damage and applies on hit effects (50% damage) to nearest enemy
  • Demacian Justice (R)
    • [Removed] the Villainy passive
    • Changed from [deals magic damage] to [always deals True Damage]
    • Damage changed from [175/350/525 (+28.6/33.3/40% of missing HP)] to [150/300/450 (+20/25/30% of missing HP)]

Kayle
[Kayle has other changes in testing on the PBE!]
  • Attack speed reverted from [.667 + 2.5% per lvl] to [.625 + 1.5% per lvl] 
  • Starfire Spellblade (E) passive damage AD ratio increased from 120% tAD to 150% tAD

TFT
Noble
  • Heal lowered from 35 to 30

Items

Context & Notes

1) Riot Scruffy tweeted a tentative Garen changelist that is now testing on the PBE:
"CatchesAxes is a Garen enthusiast and has been working on some changes. 
Goals are:
-Remove villainy passive to push power back into core pattern
-Move to a more early game lane bully power curve
-Add AS scaling to open up more builds  
Current changes below coming to PBE soon"
2) Riot Mort provided an experimental changelist for TFT now testing on the PBE:
"HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL - Going to be putting the following change list on PBE. Incredibly subject to change, but want to get some player feels on it. If you play PBE, let me know what you think."

Check out [THIS PAGEfor a comprehensive list of the new content & changes currently on the PBE as a part of this cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !

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